Bennett’s new role far from Tallahassee

For the first time since in 12 years, Mike Bennett was no where near Tallahassee at the start of a Florida Legislative session.

And it was hard.

Bennett, a Bradenton Republican who is now Manatee County’s Supervisor of Elections, said he text messaged a few of his former colleagues in the Senate on Tuesday and watched a few minutes of the opening session on television on Tuesday.

“I loved every minute of it,” Bennett, 68, said of having served in the Florida Senate.

But Bennett didn’t watch much of the opening session it turns out. Bennett said he got a few minutes in and was back to taking care of his new job, that of Supervisor of Elections. Bennett is preparing for next week’s city elections on Longboat Key - his first election in his new post. That community straddles Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Jeremy Wallace

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